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Outreach to the Public Health Community

Project Representation at the Public Health Outreach Forum National Library of Medicine, April 4-5, 2001

Boston University Medical Center, Alumni Medical Library

Project title: Boston AIDS Information Outreach Project icon
Target population: Boston Public Health AIDS Service and AIDS Service Organizations/Community Based Organizations programs in Eastern Massachusetts and Southern New Hampshire

Project title: Boston Mental Health Information Outreach Project icon
Target population: Staff, inpatients, and outpatients of the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health, Doctor Solomon Carter Fuller Mental Health Center

CVPH Medical Center Library

Project title: Information Access for Public Health Professionals (New York) icon
Target population: Public Health Departments of Clinton, Essex and Franklin Counties of New York State

East Carolina University, W. E. Laupus Health Sciences Library

Project title: Internet Connections For Access to Information Resources and Training for Public Health Professionals icon
Target population: Local public health professionals

Hawaii Medical Library, Inc.; University of Hawaii School of Public Health

Project title: HiPHIVE: Hawaii Public Health Information Virtual Emporium icon
Target population: Public health professionals throughout the state of Hawaii

Houston Academy of Medicine--Texas Medical Center Library

Project title: Houston HealthWays (formerly Information Access for Public Health Professionals) icon
Target population: Professional public health community including staff from the Houston Department of Health and Human Service, fire departments, police departments, public librarians, and consumers

Mercer University School of Medicine, Medical Library and Peyton Anderson Learning Resources Center

Project title: Improving Information Skills for Georgia Public Health Practice: The PHOENIX Project (Public Health Online Education Necessary for Information expertise) icon
Target population: Georgia public health workforce in 159 county health departments and 19 district offices

Ohio State University, John A. Prior Health Sciences Library

Project title: Neighborhood Health Centers Biomedical Information Access Via the World Wide Web icon
Target population: Health care professionals at seven Columbus Neighborhood Health Centers

Southern Regional Area Health Education Center; Fayetteville, North Carolina

Project title: Southern Regional Information Access for Public Health Professionals Project icon
Target population: Health professionals on staff at each of the nine public health departments in the SR-AHEC region

Southwest Georgia Area Health Education Center

Project title: Information Access for Public Health Professionals (Georgia) icon
Target population: All employees of Georgia Department of Public Health District 8-2

Texas Woman’s University, School of Library and Information Studies

Project title: Public Health Information Access Project icon
Target population: All employees of Georgia Department of Public Health District 8-2

University of Alaska Anchorage

Project title: Health Sciences Information Service Outreach to
Alaska’s Public Health Professionals
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Target population: Public health nurses and emergency medical services personnel in Alaska

University at Buffalo, Health Sciences Library

Project title: Partners in Information Access for Public Health Professionals icon
Target population: Approximately 700 public health professionals who work in the seventeen counties served by the Western Regional Office of the New York State Health Department

University of Connecticut, Health Center Library

Project title: Grateful Med and Internet Outreach to New England Public Health Professionals icon
Target population: Public health professionals and students in the six New England states who hold membership in NEPHA, a regional affiliate of the American Public Health Association

University of Illinois at Chicago, Library of the Health Sciences

Project title: Chicago Environmental Public Health Outreach Project icon
Target population: All individuals and groups served by the participating health centers, community-based organizations and schools

University of Iowa, Hardin Library for the Health Sciences

Project title: Healthy Iowans 2010: Integrating Information with Public Health Planning and Delivery icon
Target population: State and local health planners comprising the Workgroup and Chapter Team members involved in the planning effort for the Healthy Iowans 2010 report

University of Missouri, Kansas City Health Sciences Library

Project title: Outreach Efforts to the Public Health Office of Northwest District of Missouri icon
Target population: Health care professionals working in the fourteen city, county and state public health office in the Northwest District of Missouri

University of North Dakota, Harley E. French Library of the Health Sciences

Project title: Information Access for Public Health Professionals in North Dakota icon
Target population: All public health staff in the state of North Dakota

University of Nevada School of Medicine, Savitt Medical Library

Project title: The Public Health Information Link (P.H.I.L.) for Nevada icon
Target population: All public health professionals in state and county public health agencies in Nevada

University of Pittsburgh, Health Sciences Library System

Project title: Partners in Information Access (University of Pittsburgh) icon
Target population: Pennsylvania Department of Health and the Health Department of Allegheny, Erie, and Montgomery Counties; Pennsylvania Community Provider Association; and interested members of the Pennsylvania Public Health Association and the Pennsylvania Association of School Nurses and Practitioners

University of Rochester Medical Center, Edward G. Miner Library

Project title: Information Access for Public Health Professionals: Miner Library Electronic Circuit Librarian Program icon
Target population: Staff of county health departments in the Greater Rochester Area (Genesee, Livingston, Monroe, Ontario, Orleans, Wayne, and Wyoming Counties)

University of Utah, Eccles Health Sciences Library; and Utah Department of Health

Project title: Using State and National Public Health Information Resources: A Web-Based Training Module for Utah icon
Target population: Utah's state and local public health workforce, numbering 1300 at Utah Department of Health and approximately 700 individuals at 12 local health departments across the state

University of Vermont, Vermont State Department of Aging and Disabilities, PKC Corporation

Project title: Information Access for Public Health Professionals in Support of Elder Care icon
Target population: Public health professionals, elderly Vermonters

University of Wisconsin, Madison Health Sciences Libraries

Project title: Public Health Information Initiative: Web-Based Access To Information Resources icon
Target population: Public health nurses connected to county public health departments in 17 counties within the southern regional district of Wisconsin

Upper Savannah Area Health Education Consortium, Medical Library at Self Memorial Hospital; Greenwood, South Carolina

Project title: Outreach to Public Health Providers in the Upper Savannah AHEC Region icon
Target population: Undergraduate and graduate students of Clemson University in the Department of Public Health; Physicians and staff in two Federally supported rural clinics of the Carolina Health Centers; Members of two multi-county health departments in the Upper Savannah AHEC region; Health connectors in a rural upstate community served by a Clemson University mobile clinic, a low-income community center, and a small upstate college

Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Eskind Biomedical Library

Project title: Training Partners for Tennessee Public Health icon
Target population: Individuals working in metropolitan, county, and state public health departments, local public health institutions, and public/private community-based public health organizations in Tennessee